Research Guides: Shakespeare: Guides, Companions, & Handbooks

Guides, Companions, & Handbooks

New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare.
Edited by Margreta De Grazia and Stanley Wells.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

This guide contains twenty-one essays introducing recent scholarship and criticism on Shakespeare and his plays.
Oxford Companion to Shakespeare.
Edited by Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells , Will Sharpe, and Erin Sullivan.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Along with the regular A-Z entries, the Oxford Companion to Shakespeare includes a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and entries on each of Shakespeare's works. This online edition, revised in 2011, contains updates to more than 200 entries, along with 16 new ones.
The Student's Guide to Shakespeare
By William McKenzie.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
Routledge guide to William Shakespeare.
By Robert Shaughnessy.
London: Routledge, 2011.

The Routledge guide--aimed at both novices and experts--introduces Shakespeare's life and works, provides historical background to Shakespeare's plays and discusses performance history and, particularly, twentieth-century Shakespearean criticism.
Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film.
Publication Date: 2007

This Companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on movie adaptations of Shakespeare's plays. The guides focuses less on television than on feature films. Richard III, Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and King Lear get particular attention.
Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture.
Publication Date: 2007

This guide looks at how Shakespeare's life and works have influenced western culture. Referring to TV series, popular fiction, movies, theatre productions, visual arts, and music, scholars discuss how the plays and poems of Shakespeare, and Shakespeare himself, have been understood, perceived, and reshaped in popular media.
A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare.
Publication Date: 2016-03-15

Studying Shakespeare's plays and poems, and examining gender roles in early modern England, this guide investigates such themes as sexuality, race, queer politics, religion, the body, and capitalism.
Shakesqueer.
Publication Date: 2011

Representing a variety of perspectives, the essays in this guide home in on oddity and surprise in Shakespeare's work in the context of queer theory.
Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language.
Publication Date: 2019

Shakespeare's language is complex. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Language helps readers make sense of it, clarifying his use of metre, dialogue, and figurative speech while also showing ways technology can be used to better understand the Bard's work. The Companion also looks at how Shakespeare's linguistic felicity has affected translation, performance, and culture.

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